{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882554","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882554","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":1,"file_month":7,"file_year":1825,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":6,"end_month":7,"end_year":1825,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"François Borée, a free man of color, presents to the court that he is \"desirous of emancipating & freeing from the bonds of slavery\" his forty-five-year-old female slave named Constance, in order to comply with the \"obligation\" he contracted when he purchased her.  He vouches that Constance has always \"behaved in a blameless manner.\"  He asks the court to order the sheriff to post up \"all necessary notices\" of emancipation.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "}]}]}